No Mere `Prince` To Soviets, He`s Called `king Of Repulsion`

MOSCOW — The Grammy award-winning rock star Prince may be a big hit in the West, but a Soviet cultural newspaper Saturday called him ``the king of repulsion`` who is ``brainwashing`` young Americans.

The newspaper Soviet Culture said Prince, who climbed to the top of the record charts on the strength of a heavily sexual performance, has made his fortune by combining religion and sexual suggestion.

``Prince needed a new twist that would make him stand out from the general mass of musicians, and lo and behold, Americans were presented with a singer who combined the incompatible, religion and pornography,`` the newspaper said.

``At the same time, Prince`s appeal to God interweaves the sinister theme of praising the cleansing nuclear holocaust,`` it said, saying Prince`s hit song and movie Purple Rain refers to nuclear war.